DalitDalit (from sa, दलित, dalita meaning "broken/scattered"), also previously known as untouchable, is the lowest stratum of the castes in India. Dalits were excluded from the four-fold varna system of Hinduism and were seen as forming ... ...
(OBCs).35 "Backwardness" had very specific meaning in local contexts, but remained "vague and unprecendented" at the national level, with "no definite meaning," and with no backward class organizations or spokespeople to "attempt to define it or employ it".36 33 Galanter, Competing ...